ADMIN: Genre Redux Challenge
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Today's October 27th; stories are due November 10th at midnight.
Edited to add: I'm editing the title of this challenge to make it "genre redux"; yes, we did a genre challenge last year, but I thought it would be better to open us up to multiple genres than just to do a horror/Halloween story challenge. So use any alternative genre that you like.
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"our stories have a lot of variation, but there's still mostly a common genre we all stick to in writing our fanfiction. So what I think would be really cool would be a Genre Challenge -- for all of us to pick a specific genre of writing and write our fanfiction in that, with its style and rules.So switch that story into a different key: set your DS in a genre you normally don't write in.
An incomplete of possible genres: mystery, detective story, thriller, horror, ghost story, historical fiction, harlequin or regency romance, sf, fantasy, western, drama, children's book, Platonic dialogue, memoir/biography, academic paper, newspaper or magazine article, textbook, religious text, chronicle, guidebook, reference book."
Today's October 27th; stories are due November 10th at midnight.
Edited to add: I'm editing the title of this challenge to make it "genre redux"; yes, we did a genre challenge last year, but I thought it would be better to open us up to multiple genres than just to do a horror/Halloween story challenge. So use any alternative genre that you like.
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Date: 2006-10-28 03:53 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:26 am (UTC)Brainstorm blurt
Date: 2006-10-28 07:00 am (UTC)A diary challenge: we hear a lot of Bob's diary entries, but what about Fraser's... or Ray's (or Ray's) or Stella's or Frannie's or Turnbull's or Welsh's or Mort's? Does Ray write down his sexual fantasies about Fraser? Does Fraser, post-CotW, secretly admit to his diary that he misses Chicago? Or what about that one diary entry of Bob's that tells Fraser exactly what he needs to hear at exactly the right time?
Bad sex challenge: It can't always be perfect first time, right? Things go wrong, they get interrupted, they're too nervous to get it up...
Spam challenge: Take a subject line from a spam email and write a story about it. (Current possibilities in my spam folder: it's no wonder your girlfriend is very angry; magnificent future; dye; paste; prosperity amble; very interesting part-time job; under the money-moon.)
Kinda similar, kinda not, how about a horoscope challenge, either inspired by an existing horoscope, or about how one of the characters reading their horoscope is inspired to act (or pissed off, or confused) by what it says.
Car challenge: Stories set in, on, or around the Riv or the GTO.
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Date: 2006-10-28 12:14 pm (UTC)How about a hat challenge? Because there are quite a few hats in the show and I can't think of a reason not to.
I don't think a bondage challenge has been done yet and I can just imagine the porn potential.
Or if a bondage challenge is too specific, a kinky sex challenge would be quite fun. Because we could write about all sorts of obscure and/or bizzare sexual practices, as well as the obvious.
A flashback challenge could be interesting, with all or part of the story being told in the medium of a flashback. (Or flashbacks.)
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Date: 2006-10-28 07:29 am (UTC)Bad luck challenge - sometimes things just conspire to fuck you over. You missed that call you've been needing to catch all day. You fell over in the elevator and sprained your ankle. Maybe you were wrong about something and now you've got to make things right, but everything's just getting worse. If it wasn't for bad luck, you'd have no luck at all.
The 'broken' challenge - hearts break, so do glasses. Promises. Personalities. Write a fic about something that's broken. You might try to fix or heal it, or it might be cracked for good.
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Date: 2006-10-28 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 04:12 pm (UTC)I also adore epistolary fics - has there ever been a specific challenge on here for that? I love trying to read the underlying messages beneath the words in the letters.
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:34 pm (UTC)Would we need to dish out episodes, though, so not everyone rewrote Victoria's Secret and Asylum?
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:32 am (UTC)On a more original note, I am a total n00b-- has there been a "forgetting" challenge yet? Because if not, that's my suggestion.
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Date: 2006-10-29 02:37 pm (UTC)*delurks and waves shyly*
Date: 2006-10-29 02:25 pm (UTC)The 'broken' challenge
The Ray-swapping challenge
The cave-in challenge
I also thought that a fear challenge might be interesting, especially in exploring the things that might scare Fraser - so maybe a 'Fraidy Fraser challenge. Even when we're allowed to see Fraser's vulnerable moments (Victoria, Quinn) fear doesn't often take centre stage. And he never seems to show fear of any physical situation, even when death seems certain (trapped with RayK in an ice crevasse). What does it take to scare Fraser? How does he express it?
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:19 pm (UTC)Museums, or just art in general.
And mazes. Literal or otherwise.
*does not have a maze story already in mind, nope, not at all*
*whistles innocently*
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Date: 2006-10-30 03:25 pm (UTC)OR a Crime challegen, where a crime has to take place or be solved during the story. Like in a real DS episode.
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Date: 2006-10-31 10:29 pm (UTC)no, you don't want to know where I'm going with this. I don't really want to know where I'm going with it.
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Date: 2006-11-04 06:08 pm (UTC)